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UNINA9910455972803321 |
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Silver Anna Krugovoy |
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Victorian literature and the anorexic body / / Anna Krugovoy Silver [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002 |
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1-107-13428-5 |
0-511-48492-5 |
0-511-14796-1 |
0-511-32576-2 |
1-280-15973-1 |
0-511-12078-8 |
0-521-02551-6 |
0-511-04584-0 |
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1 online resource (x, 220 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; ; 36 |
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English literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
Anorexia nervosa in literature |
Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
Eating disorders in literature |
Human body in literature |
Body image in literature |
Sex role in literature |
Appetite in literature |
Hunger in literature |
Women in literature |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-216) and index. |
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Waisted women: reading Victorian slenderness -- Appetite in Victorian children's literature -- Hunger and repression in Shirley and Villette -- Vampirism and the anorexic paradigm -- Christina Rossetti's sacred hunger -- Conclusion: the politics of thinness. |
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Anna Krugovoy Silver examines the ways nineteenth-century British |
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writers used physical states of the female body - hunger, appetite, fat and slenderness - in the creation of female characters. Silver argues that anorexia nervosa, first diagnosed in 1873, serves as a paradigm for the cultural ideal of middle-class womanhood in Victorian Britain. In addition, Silver relates these literary expressions to the representation of women's bodies in the conduct books, beauty manuals and other non-fiction prose of the period, contending that women 'performed' their gender and class alliances through the slender body. Silver discusses a wide range of writers including Charlotte Brontèˆ, Christina Rossetti, Charles Dickens, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Bram Stoker and Lewis Carroll to show that mainstream models of middle-class Victorian womanhood share important qualities with the beliefs or behaviours of the anorexic girl or woman. |
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UNINA9910794175903321 |
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Sizemore Vic |
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Goodbye, my tribe : an evangelical exodus / / Vic Sizemore |
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Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : The University of Alabama Press, , [2020] |
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©2020 |
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Authors, American - 21st century |
Ex-church members - United States |
United States Religious life and customs |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Introduction: Truth and my tribe -- The rumble of distant thunder -- The evidence of things not seen -- The holy fool in winter -- Big bully -- For flag and empire -- Capital T -- My white tribe -- Man up -- Hey, teacher, leave our weltanschauung alone -- In mammon we trust -- Suffer not a woman -- A life among guns -- Atheists, demons, and saints -- Conclusion: Goodbye, my tribe. |
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